Bill Text: TX HB788 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of emergency service dispatchers to participate in a public safety employees treatment court program.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB788 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB788-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 788 |
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relating to the eligibility of emergency service dispatchers to | ||
participate in a public safety employees treatment court program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 129.001, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 129.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "public safety | ||
employee" means a peace officer, firefighter, detention officer, | ||
county jailer, [ |
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emergency service dispatcher of this state or a political | ||
subdivision of this state. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
person who, on or after the effective date of this Act, enters a | ||
public safety employees treatment court program created under | ||
Chapter 129, Government Code, regardless of whether the person | ||
entering the program committed the offense for which the person | ||
enters the program before, on, or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 788 was passed by the House on April | ||
9, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 788 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
12, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |